Monday, April 8, 2013

Removing Temptation

To protect myself from any delusions that would lead me to talk myself into trying to have both scarves done by Mother's Day, nice a notion as that sounds, I ignored Spring Haven all weekend. Didn't pick it up once. Didn't even look at it. I knew that I did another couple inches, I might not be able to avoiding trying, only to drive myself batty with an impossible deadline.

The fact that I encountered some problems late last week, and am *almost* certain that I have straightened them out have NOTHING at all to do with that avoidance.

Instead, I worked on Fuchsia Wave. I only half of one long side of stitches to pick up, so I pulled it out of the the knitting bag. Two hours later, I still had 120 stitches to go. Apparently, merely taking it out of the bag is not good enough. I did eventually finish the pick up row. Then I finished the "place markers" row. And I started the "Yarn Overs" row. After that is the "knit" row, then the "mitered: row, then another "knit" row, then I can finally start the border. I think. I don't have the pattern in front of me, so dollars to doughnuts I am forgetting something.

Spring is finally arriving, and with it shawl weather. I want to be able to wear both shawls soon.